Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:20:02 09/25/00
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On September 25, 2000 at 14:17:46, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Hello, I have been playing against Chessmaster 6000 on a Pentium 133 machine >with 64MB RAM. I am an experienced tournament player, both OTB and Postal (OTB >about 1800), and the program beats me like I stole something. Even the weakened >personalities in the 1800-2000 rating range seem unusually tough to finish off >in "rated" play. For example, several of the personalities play "intentionally" >poor in the opening. I usually gain a substantional positional advantage, or >maybe a pawn or two up, then, all of a sudden, the program plays quite strong. >Am I imagining all of this? I have all of the standard DOS programs, Fritz3, >Rebel10, MCP8, etc. and it seems to me that CM6000 is just as strong as these >against humans, especially in G/60 or less. Any guesses for the estimated USCF >rating of the CM personality on this machine? Also, are the "personality" >ratings USCF or international ELO estimates? >Thanks in advance, >Gerald The SSDF estimated Chessmaster 6000 at 2473 ELO on a Pentium 200. What you are experiencing are relatively strong personalities that CAN BE hampered by various aspects of their settings. Some of them, when you actually look at the settings, can be somewhat easy to take advantage of (look at Luke, for example). Some personalities (and some would say Chessmaster himself) are burdened with a poor opening book. But, when they get out of book, they are strong and you need to find their weakness to win. The ratings in the game, however, are USCF estimates. jm
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